Hand-carved in Solid Stone India Goddess Maha Lakshmi Laxmi Sculpture Figure 4"
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Hand-carved in Solid Stone India Goddess Maha Lakshmi Laxmi Sculpture Figure 4"
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- Type: Collectibles:Religion & Spirituality:Hinduism:Statues & Figures
A Rare Find - Maha Lakshmi India Goddess Laxsmi Ma Hand-Carved Into a Solid Stone 4"
Being the power and consort of Vishnu the preserver, She is represented as power of multiplicity, and the goddess or fortune. In Vedas, she is depicted as goddess of wealth, and fortune, power and beauty. Lakshmi helps believers obtain their worldly and spiritual goals.
* Beautiful Unique Lakshmi Murti Deity Statue .
* HXLXW: 4" X 2.5" X 1" Inches.
* Weight: 11.4oz
* Made In India.
* Handcrafted by Skilled artisans from India.
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{"id":1856229998649,"title":"Wooden Hatha Yoga Posture (asana) Sculpture, hand carved, Yogi Figurine Yoga scu","handle":"copy-of-wooden-yoga-posture-statue-yogi-figurine-yoga-idol-6-3-8-handmade-1","description":"\u003cp\u003eWooden Yoga Posture Statue Yogi Figurine Yoga idol Handmade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeight 6 \"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWidth 3 3\/8'' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 4.4 oz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha yoga is a branch of Yoga, one of the six schools of Hinduism. The Sanskrit word haṭha literally means \"force\" and thus alludes to a system of physical techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn India hatha yoga is associated in popular tradition with the 'Yogis' of the Natha Sampradaya through its mythical founder Matsyendranath. Matsyendranath, also known as Minanath or Minapa in Tibet, is celebrated as a saint in both Buddhist and Hindu tantric and hatha yoga schools. However, James Mallinson associates hatha yoga with the Dashanami Sampradaya and the mystical figure of Dattatreya. According to the Dattatreya Yoga Śastra, there are two forms of hatha yoga: one practiced by Yajñavalkya consisting of the eight limbs of ashtanga yoga and another practiced by Kapila consisting of eight mudras. Currently, the oldest dated text to describe hatha yoga, the 11th century CE Amṛtasiddhi, comes from a tantric Buddhist milieu. The oldest texts to use the actual verbiage of hatha are also Vajrayana Buddhist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 20th century, hatha yoga, particularly asanas (the physical postures), became popular throughout the world as a form of physical exercise, and is now colloquially termed simply as \"yoga.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarliest textual references\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the Indologist James Mallinson, some Hatha Yoga techniques can be traced back at least to the 1st-century CE, in texts such as the Sanskrit epics (Hinduism) and the Pali canon (Buddhism). The Pali canon contains three passages in which the Buddha describes pressing the tongue against the palate for the purposes of controlling hunger or the mind, depending on the passage.[7] However, there is no mention of the tongue being inserted into the nasopharynx as in true khecarī mudrā. The Buddha used a posture where pressure is put on the perineum with the heel, similar to modern postures used to stimulate Kundalini.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Birch, the earliest mentions of Haṭha Yoga specifically are also from Buddhist texts, mainly Tantric works from the 8th century onwards, such as Puṇḍarīka’s Vimalaprabhā commentary on the Kālacakratantra. In this text, Haṭha Yoga is defined within the context of tantric sexual ritual:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"when the undying moment does not arise because the breath is unrestrained [even] when the image is seen by means of withdrawal (pratyahara) and the other (auxiliaries of yoga, i.e. dhyana, pranayama, dharana, anusmrti and samadhi), then, having forcefully (hathena) made the breath flow in the central channel through the practice of nada, which is about to be explained, [the yogi] should attain the undying moment by restraining the bindu of the bodhicitta [i.e. semen] in the vajra [i.e. penis] when it is in the lotus of wisdom [i.e. vagina]\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the actual means of practice are not specified, the forcing of the breath into the central channel and the restraining of bindu are central features of later haṭhayoga practice texts.[10]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedieval systematization\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn medieval times, teachings on Yoga were systematized in several texts:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Amṛtasiddhi, which dates to the 11th century CE, teaches mahābandha, mahāmudrā, and mahāvedha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dattātreyayogaśāstra, probably composed in the 13th century CE, teaches an eightfold yoga identical with Patañjali's 8 limbs that it attributes to Yajnavalkya and others as well as eight mudras that it says were undertaken by the rishi Kapila and other ṛishis.[1]:771 The Dattātreyayogaśāstra teaches mahāmudrā, mahābandha, khecarīmudrā, jālandharabandha, uḍḍiyāṇabandha, mūlabandha, viparītakaraṇī, vajrolī, amarolī, and sahajolī.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ̣Śārṅgadharapaddhati is an anthology of verses on a wide range of subjects compiled in 1363 CE, which in its description of Hatha Yoga includes ̣the Dattātreyayogaśāstra’s teachings on five mudrās.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Vivekamārtaṇḍa, which is contemporaneous with the Dattātreyayogaśāstra, teaches nabhomudrā (i.e. khecarīmudrā), mahāmudrā, viparītakaraṇī and the three bandhas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Goraksaśatakạ, which is also contemporaneous with the Dattātreyayogaśāstra, teaches śakticālanīmudrā along with the three bandhas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Khecarīvidyā teaches only the method of khecarīmudrā.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe methods of the Amṛtasiddhi, Dattātreyayogaśāstra and Vivekamārtaṇḍa are used to raise and conserve bindu (semen, and in women rajas - menstrual fluid) which was seen as the physical essence of life that was constantly dripping down from the head and being lost.[1]:770 These techniques sought to either physically reverse this process (by inverted postures like the viparītakaraṇī) or to use the breath to force bindu upwards through the central channel. Other texts like the Vivekamārtaṇḍa, Goraksaśataka, and Khecarīvidyā also teach the raising of kuṇḍalinī. The aims of these practices were siddhis (supranormal powers such as levitation) and mukti (liberation).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only other texts older than the Hathapradīpikā to teach Hatha Yoga ̣mudrās are the Shiva Samhita, Yogabīja, Amaraughaprabodha, and Śārṅgadharapaddhati.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassical Hatha yoga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga Pradīpika\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hatha Yoga Pradīpika is one of the most influential texts of Hatha yoga. It was compiled by Svātmārāma in the 15th century CE from earlier hatha yoga texts. These earlier texts were of Vedanta or non-dual Shaivaorientation. From both, the Hatha Yoga Pradīpika borrowed the philosophy of non-duality (advaita). According to James Mallinson, this reliance on non-duality helped Hatha Yoga thrive in the medieval period as non-duality became the \"dominant soteriological method in scholarly religious discourse in India\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga Pradipika lists 35 great yoga siddhas starting with Adi Natha (Hindu god Shiva) followed by Matsyendranath and Gorakshanath. It includes information about shatkarma (six acts of self purification), 15 asana(postures: seated, laying down, and non-seated), pranayama (breathing) and kumbhaka (breath retention), mudras (internalized energetic practices), meditation, chakras (centers of energy), kundalini, nadanusandhana (concentration on inner sound), and other topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga Pradipika is the best known and most widely used Hatha yoga text. It consists of 389 shlokas (verses) in four chapters:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 with 67 verses deals with setting the proper environment for yoga, ethical duties of a yogi, and asanas (postures)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 with 78 verses deals with the pranayama (breathing exercises, control of vital energy within) and the satkarmani (body cleansing)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 with 130 verses discusses the mudras and their benefits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 with 114 verses deals with meditation and samadhi as a journey of personal spiritual growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-Hathapradīpikạ̄ texts[edit]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-Hathapradipika texts on Hatha yoga include:[1]:773-774[16]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmaraughasasana: a Sharada script manuscript of this Hatha yoga text was copied in 1525 CE. It is notable because fragments of this manuscript have also been found near Kuqa in Xinjiang (China). The text discusses khecarimudra, but calls it saranas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha ratnavali: a 17th-century text that states Hatha yoga consists of ten mudras, eight cleansing methods, nine kumbhakas and 84 asanas (compared to 15 asanas of Hathapradīpikạ̄). The text is also notable for dropping the nadanusandhana (inner sound) technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHathapradipika Siddhantamuktavali: an early 18th-century text that expands on Hathapradīpikạ̄ by adding practical insights and citations to other Indian texts on yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGheranda samhita: a 17th or 18th-century text that presents Hatha yoga as \"ghatastha yoga\", according to Mallinson. It presents 6 cleansing methods, 32 asanas, 25 mudras and 10 pranayamas.[18] It is one of the most encyclopedic texts on Hatha yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJogpradipaka: an 18th-century Braj-language text that presents Hatha yoga simply as \"yoga\", composed by Ramanandi Jayatarama. It presents 6 cleansing methods, 84 asanas, 24 mudras and 8 kumbhakas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern era\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorically, Hatha yoga has been a broad movement across the Indian traditions, openly available to anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga, like other methods of yoga, can be practiced by all, regardless of sex, caste, class, or creed. Many texts explicitly state that it is practice alone that leads to success. Sectarian affiliation and philosophical inclination are of no importance. The texts of Hatha Yoga, with some exceptions, do not include teachings on metaphysics or sect-specific practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Mallinson, the Hatha yoga represented a trend towards the democratization of yoga insights and religion similar to the Bhakti movement. It eliminated the need for \"either ascetic renunciation or priestly intermediaries, ritual paraphernalia and sectarian initiations\".[21] This led to its broad historic popularity in India. Later in the 20th-century, states Mallinson, this disconnect of Hatha yoga from religious aspects and the democratic access of Hatha yoga enabled it to spread worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the 17th and 19th-century, however, the various urban Hindu and Muslim elites and ruling classes viewed Yogis with derision. They were persecuted during the rule of Aurangzeb, who ended a long period of religious tolerance that had defined the rule of his predecessors beginning with Akbar, who famously studied with the yogis and other mystics. Hatha yoga remained popular in rural India. Negative impression for the Hatha yogis continued during the British colonial rule era. According to Mark Singleton, this historical negativity and colonial antipathy likely motivated Swami Vivekananda to make an emphatic distinction between \"merely physical exercises of Hatha yoga\" and the \"higher spiritual path of Raja yoga\". This common disdain by the officials and intellectuals slowed the study and adoption of Hatha yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern hatha yoga, of the type seen in the West, has been greatly influenced by the school of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who taught from 1924 until his death in 1989. Among his students prominent in popularizing yoga in the West were K. Pattabhi Jois famous for popularizing the vigorous Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga style, B. K. S. Iyengar who emphasized alignment and the use of props, Indra Devi and Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar.[30]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother well-known school of Hatha yoga in the 20th-century has been the Divine Life Society founded by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh (1887–1963) and his many disciples including, among others, Swami Vishnu-devananda – founder of International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres; Swami Satyananda – of the Bihar School of Yoga; and Swami Satchidananda of Integral Yoga.[30] After about 1975, yoga techniques have become increasingly popular globally, in both developed and developing countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bihar School of Yoga has been one of the largest Hatha yoga teacher training centers in India but is little known in Europe and the Americas. In the West, Krishnamacharya-linked schools have been more widely known. Examples of other branded forms of yoga, with some controversies, that contain Hatha yoga methodologies include Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Bikram Yoga, Integral Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Jivanmukti Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Kripalu Yoga, Kriya Yoga, Siddha Yoga, Viniyoga, Vinyasa Yoga and White Lotus Yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePractice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha yoga practice has many elements, both behavioral and of practice. The Hatha yoga texts state that a successful yogi has certain characteristics. Section 1.16 of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, for example, states these characteristics to be utsaha (enthusiasm, fortitude), sahasa (courage), dhairya (patience), jnana tattva (essence for knowledge), nishcaya (resolve, determination) and tyaga (solitude, renunciation).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Western culture, Hatha yoga is typically understood as asanas and it can be practiced as such.[34] In the Indian and Tibetan traditions, Hatha yoga is much more. It extends well beyond being a sophisticated physical exercise system and integrates ideas of ethics, diet, cleansing, pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation and a system for spiritual development of the yogi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hatha yoga texts place major emphasis on mitahara, which connotes \"measured diet\" or \"moderate eating\". For example, sections 1.58 to 1.63 and 2.14 of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and sections 5.16 to 5.32 of Gheranda samhita discuss the importance of proper diet to the body. They link the food one eats and one's eating habits to balancing the body and to gaining most benefits from the practice of Hatha yoga. Eating, states Gheranda samhita, is a form of a devotional act to the temple of body, as if one is expressing affection for the gods.[37] Similarly, sections 3.20 and 5.25 of the Shiva Samhita text on Hatha Yoga includes mitahara as an essential part of a Hatha yoga holistic practice.[39]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eब्रह्मचारी मिताहारी तयागी योग-परायणः | अब्दादूर्ध्वं भवेद्सिद्धो नात्र कार्या विछारणा ||\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brahmachari, practicing mitahara (moderate diet) and tyaga (renunciation, solitude), devoted to yoga achieves success in his inquiry and effort within half a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Hathayoga Pradipika, 1.57\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerses 1.57 through 1.63 of the critical edition of Hathayoga Pradipika suggests that taste cravings should not drive one’s eating habits, rather the best diet is one that is tasty, nutritious and likable as well as sufficient to meet the needs of one’s body and for one’s inner self.[41] It recommends that one must “eat only when one feels hungry” and “neither overeat nor eat to completely fill the capacity of one’s stomach; rather leave a quarter portion empty and fill three quarters with quality food and fresh water”.[41]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to another Hatha Yoga classic Gorakshasataka, eating a controlled diet is one of the three important parts of a complete and successful practice. The text does not provide details or recipes. The text states, according to Mallinson, \"food should be unctuous and sweet\", one must not overeat and stop when still a bit hungry (leave a quarter of the stomach empty), and whatever one eats should aim to please the Shiva.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha yoga teaches various steps of inner body cleansing with consultations of one's yoga teacher. Its texts vary in specifics and number of cleansing methods, ranging from simple hygiene practices to the peculiar exercises such as reversing seminal fluid flow. The most common list is called shat-karmani, or six cleansing actions: dhauti (cleanse teeth and body), vasti (cleanse bladder), neti (cleanse nasal passages), trataka (cleanse eyes), nauli (abdominal massage) and kapala-bhati (cleanse phlegm). The actual procedure for cleansing varies by the Hatha yoga text, with some suggesting water wash and others describing the use of cleansing aids such as cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProper breathing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrāṇāyāma is made out of two Sanskrit words prāṇa (प्राण, breath, vital energy, life force) and āyāma (आयाम, restraining, extending, stretching).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome Hatha yoga texts teach breath exercises but do not refer to it as Pranayama. For example, Gheranda samhita in section 3.55 calls it Ghatavastha (state of being the pot). In others, the term Kumbhaka or Prana-samrodhareplaces Pranayama. Regardless of the nomenclature, proper breathing and the use of breathing techniques during a posture is a mainstay of Hatha yoga. Its texts state that proper breathing exercises cleanses and balances the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePranayama is one of the core practices of Hatha yoga, found in its major texts as one of the limbs regardless of whether the total number of limbs taught are four or more. It is the practice of consciously regulating breath (inhalation and exhalation), a concept shared with all schools of yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is done in several ways, inhaling and then suspending exhalation for a period, exhaling and then suspending inhalation for a period, slowing the inhalation and exhalation, consciously changing the time\/length of breath (deep, short breathing), combining these with certain focussed muscle exercises. Pranayama or proper breathing is an integral part of asanas. According to section 1.38 of Hatha yoga pradipika, Siddhasana is the most suitable and easiest posture to learn breathing exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe different Hatha yoga texts discuss pranayama in various ways. For example, Hatha yoga pradipka in section 2.71 explains it as a threefold practice: recaka (exhalation), puraka (inhalation) and kumbhaka (retention). During the exhalation and inhalation, the text states that three things move: air, prana and yogi's thoughts, and all three are intimately connected. It is kumbhaka where stillness and dissolution emerges. The text divides kumbhaka into two kinds: sahita (supported) and kevala (complete). Sahita kumbhaka is further sub-divided into two types: retention with inhalation, retention with exhalation. Each of these breath units are then combined in different permutations, time lengths, posture and targeted muscle exercises in the belief that these aerate and assist blood flow to targeted regions of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProper postures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore starting yoga practice, state the Hatha yoga texts, the yogi must establish a suitable place for the yoga practice. This place is away from all distractions, preferably a mathika (hermitage) that is distant from falling rocks, fire and a damp shifting surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce a peaceful stable location has been set, the yogi begins the posture exercises called asanas. These Hatha yoga postures come in numerous forms. For a beginner, states the historian of religion Mircea Eliade, these asanas are uncomfortable, typically difficult, cause the body shakes and typically unbearable to hold for extended periods of time.[64] However, with repetition and persistence, as the muscle tone improves, the effort reduces and posture improves. According to the Hatha yoga texts, each posture becomes perfect when the \"effort disappears\", one no longer thinks about the posture and one's body position, breathes normally per pranayama, and is able to dwell in one's meditation (anantasamapattibhyam).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe asanas discussed in different Hatha yoga texts vary significantly. Unlike ancient yoga texts of Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism, it is the Hatha yoga texts that provide step by step methodology on how to enter into an asana. The Hindu text Gheranda samhita, for example, in section 2.8 describes the padmasana for meditation.[ Most asanas are inspired by nature, such as a form of union with symmetric, harmonious flowing shapes of animals, birds or plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKundalini in later hatha yoga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly hatha yoga was used to prevent the dripping of bindu (semen) from the heads of men.[1]:770 The two early hatha yoga techniques to achieve this were inverted poses such as Viparita Karani, known as the reverser, or to make breath flow into the center channel which forces bindu up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, in later hatha yoga, the Kaula visualization of Kuṇḍalini rising through a system of chakras is overlaid onto the earlier bindu-oriented system. The aim was to access amṛta (the nectar of immortality) situated in the head, which subsequently floods the body. This goal is in contradiction with the early hatha yoga goal of preserving bindu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeditation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hatha yoga pradipika text dedicates almost a third of its verses to meditation. Similarly, other major texts of Hatha yoga such as Shiva samhita and Gheranda samhita discuss meditation. In all three texts, meditation is the ultimate goal of all the preparatory cleansing, asanas, pranayama and other steps. The aim of this meditation is to realize Nada-Brahman, or the complete absorption and union with the Brahman through inner mystic sound. According to Guy Beck – a professor of Religious Studies known for his studies on Yoga and music, a Hatha yogi in this stage of practice seeks \"inner union of physical opposites\", into an inner state of samadhi that is described by Hatha yoga texts in terms of divine sounds, and as a union with Nada-Brahman in musical literature of ancient India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe aims of Hatha yoga in various Indian traditions have been the same as those of other varieties of yoga. These include physical siddhis (special powers, bodily benefits such as slowing age effects, magical powers) and spiritual liberation (moksha, mukti). According to Mikel Burley, some of the siddhis are symbolic references to the cherished soteriological goals of Indian religions. For example, the Vayu Siddhi or \"conquest of the air\" literally implies rising into the air as in levitation, but it likely has a symbolic meaning of \"a state of consciousness into a vast ocean of space\" or \"voidness\" ideas found respectively in Hinduism and Buddhism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome traditions such as the Kaula tantric sect of Hinduism and Sahajiya tantric sect of Buddhism pursued more esoteric goals such as alchemy (Nagarjuna, Carpita), magic, kalavancana (cheating death) and parakayapravesa(entering another's body). James Mallinson, however, disagrees and suggests that such fringe practices are far removed from the mainstream Yoga's goal as meditation-driven means to liberation in Indian religions.The majority of historic Hatha yoga texts do not give any importance to siddhis. The mainstream practice considered the pursuit of magical powers as a distraction or hindrance to Hatha yoga's ultimate aim of spiritual liberation, self-knowledge or release from rebirth that the Indian traditions call mukti or moksha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goals of Hatha yoga, in its earliest texts, were linked to mumukshu (seeker of liberation, moksha). The later texts added and experimented with the goals of bubhukshu (seeker of enjoyment, bhoga).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDifferences from Patanjali yoga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha yoga is a branch of yoga. It shares numerous ideas and doctrines with other forms of yoga, such as the more ancient Yoga system taught by Patanjali. The differences are in the addition of some aspects, and different emphasis on other aspects. For example, pranayama is crucial in all yogas, but it is the mainstay of Hatha yoga. Mudras and certain kundalini-related ideas are included in Hatha yoga, but not mentioned in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Patanjali yoga considers asanas important but dwells less on various asanas than the Hatha yoga texts. In contrast, the Hatha yoga texts consider meditation as important but dwell less on meditation methodology than Patanjali yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hatha yoga texts acknowledge and refer to Patanjali yoga, attesting to the latter's antiquity. However, this acknowledgment is essentially only in passing, as they offer no serious commentary or exposition of Patanjali's system. This suggests that Hatha yoga developed as a branch of the more ancient yoga.[84] According to P.V. Kane, Patanjali yoga concentrates more on the yoga of the mind, while Hatha yoga focuses on body and health.[85] Some Hindu texts do not recognize this distinction. For example, the Yogatattva Upanishad teaches a system that includes all aspects of the Yogasutras of Patanjali, and all additional elements of Hatha yoga practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImpact\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The impact of Hatha yoga on physical and mental health has been a topic of systematic studies. Some scholars state that a regular and proper yoga practice yields health benefits. Others state that the results of these studies have been mixed and inconclusive, with cancer studies suggesting none to unclear effectiveness, and others suggesting yoga may reduce risk factors and aid in a patient's psychological healing process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoga's combined focus on mindfulness, breathing, and physical movements bring health benefits with regular participation. Yoga participants report better sleep, increased energy levels and muscle tone, relief from muscle pain and stiffness, improved circulation and overall better general health. 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The Sanskrit word haṭha literally means \"force\" and thus alludes to a system of physical techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn India hatha yoga is associated in popular tradition with the 'Yogis' of the Natha Sampradaya through its mythical founder Matsyendranath. Matsyendranath, also known as Minanath or Minapa in Tibet, is celebrated as a saint in both Buddhist and Hindu tantric and hatha yoga schools. However, James Mallinson associates hatha yoga with the Dashanami Sampradaya and the mystical figure of Dattatreya. According to the Dattatreya Yoga Śastra, there are two forms of hatha yoga: one practiced by Yajñavalkya consisting of the eight limbs of ashtanga yoga and another practiced by Kapila consisting of eight mudras. Currently, the oldest dated text to describe hatha yoga, the 11th century CE Amṛtasiddhi, comes from a tantric Buddhist milieu. The oldest texts to use the actual verbiage of hatha are also Vajrayana Buddhist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 20th century, hatha yoga, particularly asanas (the physical postures), became popular throughout the world as a form of physical exercise, and is now colloquially termed simply as \"yoga.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarliest textual references\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the Indologist James Mallinson, some Hatha Yoga techniques can be traced back at least to the 1st-century CE, in texts such as the Sanskrit epics (Hinduism) and the Pali canon (Buddhism). The Pali canon contains three passages in which the Buddha describes pressing the tongue against the palate for the purposes of controlling hunger or the mind, depending on the passage.[7] However, there is no mention of the tongue being inserted into the nasopharynx as in true khecarī mudrā. The Buddha used a posture where pressure is put on the perineum with the heel, similar to modern postures used to stimulate Kundalini.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Birch, the earliest mentions of Haṭha Yoga specifically are also from Buddhist texts, mainly Tantric works from the 8th century onwards, such as Puṇḍarīka’s Vimalaprabhā commentary on the Kālacakratantra. In this text, Haṭha Yoga is defined within the context of tantric sexual ritual:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"when the undying moment does not arise because the breath is unrestrained [even] when the image is seen by means of withdrawal (pratyahara) and the other (auxiliaries of yoga, i.e. dhyana, pranayama, dharana, anusmrti and samadhi), then, having forcefully (hathena) made the breath flow in the central channel through the practice of nada, which is about to be explained, [the yogi] should attain the undying moment by restraining the bindu of the bodhicitta [i.e. semen] in the vajra [i.e. penis] when it is in the lotus of wisdom [i.e. vagina]\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the actual means of practice are not specified, the forcing of the breath into the central channel and the restraining of bindu are central features of later haṭhayoga practice texts.[10]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedieval systematization\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn medieval times, teachings on Yoga were systematized in several texts:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Amṛtasiddhi, which dates to the 11th century CE, teaches mahābandha, mahāmudrā, and mahāvedha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dattātreyayogaśāstra, probably composed in the 13th century CE, teaches an eightfold yoga identical with Patañjali's 8 limbs that it attributes to Yajnavalkya and others as well as eight mudras that it says were undertaken by the rishi Kapila and other ṛishis.[1]:771 The Dattātreyayogaśāstra teaches mahāmudrā, mahābandha, khecarīmudrā, jālandharabandha, uḍḍiyāṇabandha, mūlabandha, viparītakaraṇī, vajrolī, amarolī, and sahajolī.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ̣Śārṅgadharapaddhati is an anthology of verses on a wide range of subjects compiled in 1363 CE, which in its description of Hatha Yoga includes ̣the Dattātreyayogaśāstra’s teachings on five mudrās.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Vivekamārtaṇḍa, which is contemporaneous with the Dattātreyayogaśāstra, teaches nabhomudrā (i.e. khecarīmudrā), mahāmudrā, viparītakaraṇī and the three bandhas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Goraksaśatakạ, which is also contemporaneous with the Dattātreyayogaśāstra, teaches śakticālanīmudrā along with the three bandhas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Khecarīvidyā teaches only the method of khecarīmudrā.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe methods of the Amṛtasiddhi, Dattātreyayogaśāstra and Vivekamārtaṇḍa are used to raise and conserve bindu (semen, and in women rajas - menstrual fluid) which was seen as the physical essence of life that was constantly dripping down from the head and being lost.[1]:770 These techniques sought to either physically reverse this process (by inverted postures like the viparītakaraṇī) or to use the breath to force bindu upwards through the central channel. Other texts like the Vivekamārtaṇḍa, Goraksaśataka, and Khecarīvidyā also teach the raising of kuṇḍalinī. The aims of these practices were siddhis (supranormal powers such as levitation) and mukti (liberation).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only other texts older than the Hathapradīpikā to teach Hatha Yoga ̣mudrās are the Shiva Samhita, Yogabīja, Amaraughaprabodha, and Śārṅgadharapaddhati.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassical Hatha yoga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga Pradīpika\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hatha Yoga Pradīpika is one of the most influential texts of Hatha yoga. It was compiled by Svātmārāma in the 15th century CE from earlier hatha yoga texts. These earlier texts were of Vedanta or non-dual Shaivaorientation. From both, the Hatha Yoga Pradīpika borrowed the philosophy of non-duality (advaita). According to James Mallinson, this reliance on non-duality helped Hatha Yoga thrive in the medieval period as non-duality became the \"dominant soteriological method in scholarly religious discourse in India\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga Pradipika lists 35 great yoga siddhas starting with Adi Natha (Hindu god Shiva) followed by Matsyendranath and Gorakshanath. It includes information about shatkarma (six acts of self purification), 15 asana(postures: seated, laying down, and non-seated), pranayama (breathing) and kumbhaka (breath retention), mudras (internalized energetic practices), meditation, chakras (centers of energy), kundalini, nadanusandhana (concentration on inner sound), and other topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga Pradipika is the best known and most widely used Hatha yoga text. It consists of 389 shlokas (verses) in four chapters:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 with 67 verses deals with setting the proper environment for yoga, ethical duties of a yogi, and asanas (postures)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 with 78 verses deals with the pranayama (breathing exercises, control of vital energy within) and the satkarmani (body cleansing)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 with 130 verses discusses the mudras and their benefits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 with 114 verses deals with meditation and samadhi as a journey of personal spiritual growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-Hathapradīpikạ̄ texts[edit]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-Hathapradipika texts on Hatha yoga include:[1]:773-774[16]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmaraughasasana: a Sharada script manuscript of this Hatha yoga text was copied in 1525 CE. It is notable because fragments of this manuscript have also been found near Kuqa in Xinjiang (China). The text discusses khecarimudra, but calls it saranas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha ratnavali: a 17th-century text that states Hatha yoga consists of ten mudras, eight cleansing methods, nine kumbhakas and 84 asanas (compared to 15 asanas of Hathapradīpikạ̄). The text is also notable for dropping the nadanusandhana (inner sound) technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHathapradipika Siddhantamuktavali: an early 18th-century text that expands on Hathapradīpikạ̄ by adding practical insights and citations to other Indian texts on yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGheranda samhita: a 17th or 18th-century text that presents Hatha yoga as \"ghatastha yoga\", according to Mallinson. It presents 6 cleansing methods, 32 asanas, 25 mudras and 10 pranayamas.[18] It is one of the most encyclopedic texts on Hatha yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJogpradipaka: an 18th-century Braj-language text that presents Hatha yoga simply as \"yoga\", composed by Ramanandi Jayatarama. It presents 6 cleansing methods, 84 asanas, 24 mudras and 8 kumbhakas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern era\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorically, Hatha yoga has been a broad movement across the Indian traditions, openly available to anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha Yoga, like other methods of yoga, can be practiced by all, regardless of sex, caste, class, or creed. Many texts explicitly state that it is practice alone that leads to success. Sectarian affiliation and philosophical inclination are of no importance. The texts of Hatha Yoga, with some exceptions, do not include teachings on metaphysics or sect-specific practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Mallinson, the Hatha yoga represented a trend towards the democratization of yoga insights and religion similar to the Bhakti movement. It eliminated the need for \"either ascetic renunciation or priestly intermediaries, ritual paraphernalia and sectarian initiations\".[21] This led to its broad historic popularity in India. Later in the 20th-century, states Mallinson, this disconnect of Hatha yoga from religious aspects and the democratic access of Hatha yoga enabled it to spread worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the 17th and 19th-century, however, the various urban Hindu and Muslim elites and ruling classes viewed Yogis with derision. They were persecuted during the rule of Aurangzeb, who ended a long period of religious tolerance that had defined the rule of his predecessors beginning with Akbar, who famously studied with the yogis and other mystics. Hatha yoga remained popular in rural India. Negative impression for the Hatha yogis continued during the British colonial rule era. According to Mark Singleton, this historical negativity and colonial antipathy likely motivated Swami Vivekananda to make an emphatic distinction between \"merely physical exercises of Hatha yoga\" and the \"higher spiritual path of Raja yoga\". This common disdain by the officials and intellectuals slowed the study and adoption of Hatha yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern hatha yoga, of the type seen in the West, has been greatly influenced by the school of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who taught from 1924 until his death in 1989. Among his students prominent in popularizing yoga in the West were K. Pattabhi Jois famous for popularizing the vigorous Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga style, B. K. S. Iyengar who emphasized alignment and the use of props, Indra Devi and Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar.[30]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother well-known school of Hatha yoga in the 20th-century has been the Divine Life Society founded by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh (1887–1963) and his many disciples including, among others, Swami Vishnu-devananda – founder of International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres; Swami Satyananda – of the Bihar School of Yoga; and Swami Satchidananda of Integral Yoga.[30] After about 1975, yoga techniques have become increasingly popular globally, in both developed and developing countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bihar School of Yoga has been one of the largest Hatha yoga teacher training centers in India but is little known in Europe and the Americas. In the West, Krishnamacharya-linked schools have been more widely known. Examples of other branded forms of yoga, with some controversies, that contain Hatha yoga methodologies include Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Bikram Yoga, Integral Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Jivanmukti Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Kripalu Yoga, Kriya Yoga, Siddha Yoga, Viniyoga, Vinyasa Yoga and White Lotus Yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePractice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha yoga practice has many elements, both behavioral and of practice. The Hatha yoga texts state that a successful yogi has certain characteristics. Section 1.16 of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, for example, states these characteristics to be utsaha (enthusiasm, fortitude), sahasa (courage), dhairya (patience), jnana tattva (essence for knowledge), nishcaya (resolve, determination) and tyaga (solitude, renunciation).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Western culture, Hatha yoga is typically understood as asanas and it can be practiced as such.[34] In the Indian and Tibetan traditions, Hatha yoga is much more. It extends well beyond being a sophisticated physical exercise system and integrates ideas of ethics, diet, cleansing, pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation and a system for spiritual development of the yogi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hatha yoga texts place major emphasis on mitahara, which connotes \"measured diet\" or \"moderate eating\". For example, sections 1.58 to 1.63 and 2.14 of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and sections 5.16 to 5.32 of Gheranda samhita discuss the importance of proper diet to the body. They link the food one eats and one's eating habits to balancing the body and to gaining most benefits from the practice of Hatha yoga. Eating, states Gheranda samhita, is a form of a devotional act to the temple of body, as if one is expressing affection for the gods.[37] Similarly, sections 3.20 and 5.25 of the Shiva Samhita text on Hatha Yoga includes mitahara as an essential part of a Hatha yoga holistic practice.[39]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eब्रह्मचारी मिताहारी तयागी योग-परायणः | अब्दादूर्ध्वं भवेद्सिद्धो नात्र कार्या विछारणा ||\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brahmachari, practicing mitahara (moderate diet) and tyaga (renunciation, solitude), devoted to yoga achieves success in his inquiry and effort within half a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Hathayoga Pradipika, 1.57\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerses 1.57 through 1.63 of the critical edition of Hathayoga Pradipika suggests that taste cravings should not drive one’s eating habits, rather the best diet is one that is tasty, nutritious and likable as well as sufficient to meet the needs of one’s body and for one’s inner self.[41] It recommends that one must “eat only when one feels hungry” and “neither overeat nor eat to completely fill the capacity of one’s stomach; rather leave a quarter portion empty and fill three quarters with quality food and fresh water”.[41]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to another Hatha Yoga classic Gorakshasataka, eating a controlled diet is one of the three important parts of a complete and successful practice. The text does not provide details or recipes. The text states, according to Mallinson, \"food should be unctuous and sweet\", one must not overeat and stop when still a bit hungry (leave a quarter of the stomach empty), and whatever one eats should aim to please the Shiva.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha yoga teaches various steps of inner body cleansing with consultations of one's yoga teacher. Its texts vary in specifics and number of cleansing methods, ranging from simple hygiene practices to the peculiar exercises such as reversing seminal fluid flow. The most common list is called shat-karmani, or six cleansing actions: dhauti (cleanse teeth and body), vasti (cleanse bladder), neti (cleanse nasal passages), trataka (cleanse eyes), nauli (abdominal massage) and kapala-bhati (cleanse phlegm). The actual procedure for cleansing varies by the Hatha yoga text, with some suggesting water wash and others describing the use of cleansing aids such as cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProper breathing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrāṇāyāma is made out of two Sanskrit words prāṇa (प्राण, breath, vital energy, life force) and āyāma (आयाम, restraining, extending, stretching).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome Hatha yoga texts teach breath exercises but do not refer to it as Pranayama. For example, Gheranda samhita in section 3.55 calls it Ghatavastha (state of being the pot). In others, the term Kumbhaka or Prana-samrodhareplaces Pranayama. Regardless of the nomenclature, proper breathing and the use of breathing techniques during a posture is a mainstay of Hatha yoga. Its texts state that proper breathing exercises cleanses and balances the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePranayama is one of the core practices of Hatha yoga, found in its major texts as one of the limbs regardless of whether the total number of limbs taught are four or more. It is the practice of consciously regulating breath (inhalation and exhalation), a concept shared with all schools of yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is done in several ways, inhaling and then suspending exhalation for a period, exhaling and then suspending inhalation for a period, slowing the inhalation and exhalation, consciously changing the time\/length of breath (deep, short breathing), combining these with certain focussed muscle exercises. Pranayama or proper breathing is an integral part of asanas. According to section 1.38 of Hatha yoga pradipika, Siddhasana is the most suitable and easiest posture to learn breathing exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe different Hatha yoga texts discuss pranayama in various ways. For example, Hatha yoga pradipka in section 2.71 explains it as a threefold practice: recaka (exhalation), puraka (inhalation) and kumbhaka (retention). During the exhalation and inhalation, the text states that three things move: air, prana and yogi's thoughts, and all three are intimately connected. It is kumbhaka where stillness and dissolution emerges. The text divides kumbhaka into two kinds: sahita (supported) and kevala (complete). Sahita kumbhaka is further sub-divided into two types: retention with inhalation, retention with exhalation. Each of these breath units are then combined in different permutations, time lengths, posture and targeted muscle exercises in the belief that these aerate and assist blood flow to targeted regions of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProper postures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore starting yoga practice, state the Hatha yoga texts, the yogi must establish a suitable place for the yoga practice. This place is away from all distractions, preferably a mathika (hermitage) that is distant from falling rocks, fire and a damp shifting surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce a peaceful stable location has been set, the yogi begins the posture exercises called asanas. These Hatha yoga postures come in numerous forms. For a beginner, states the historian of religion Mircea Eliade, these asanas are uncomfortable, typically difficult, cause the body shakes and typically unbearable to hold for extended periods of time.[64] However, with repetition and persistence, as the muscle tone improves, the effort reduces and posture improves. According to the Hatha yoga texts, each posture becomes perfect when the \"effort disappears\", one no longer thinks about the posture and one's body position, breathes normally per pranayama, and is able to dwell in one's meditation (anantasamapattibhyam).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe asanas discussed in different Hatha yoga texts vary significantly. Unlike ancient yoga texts of Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism, it is the Hatha yoga texts that provide step by step methodology on how to enter into an asana. The Hindu text Gheranda samhita, for example, in section 2.8 describes the padmasana for meditation.[ Most asanas are inspired by nature, such as a form of union with symmetric, harmonious flowing shapes of animals, birds or plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKundalini in later hatha yoga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly hatha yoga was used to prevent the dripping of bindu (semen) from the heads of men.[1]:770 The two early hatha yoga techniques to achieve this were inverted poses such as Viparita Karani, known as the reverser, or to make breath flow into the center channel which forces bindu up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, in later hatha yoga, the Kaula visualization of Kuṇḍalini rising through a system of chakras is overlaid onto the earlier bindu-oriented system. The aim was to access amṛta (the nectar of immortality) situated in the head, which subsequently floods the body. This goal is in contradiction with the early hatha yoga goal of preserving bindu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeditation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hatha yoga pradipika text dedicates almost a third of its verses to meditation. Similarly, other major texts of Hatha yoga such as Shiva samhita and Gheranda samhita discuss meditation. In all three texts, meditation is the ultimate goal of all the preparatory cleansing, asanas, pranayama and other steps. The aim of this meditation is to realize Nada-Brahman, or the complete absorption and union with the Brahman through inner mystic sound. According to Guy Beck – a professor of Religious Studies known for his studies on Yoga and music, a Hatha yogi in this stage of practice seeks \"inner union of physical opposites\", into an inner state of samadhi that is described by Hatha yoga texts in terms of divine sounds, and as a union with Nada-Brahman in musical literature of ancient India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe aims of Hatha yoga in various Indian traditions have been the same as those of other varieties of yoga. These include physical siddhis (special powers, bodily benefits such as slowing age effects, magical powers) and spiritual liberation (moksha, mukti). According to Mikel Burley, some of the siddhis are symbolic references to the cherished soteriological goals of Indian religions. For example, the Vayu Siddhi or \"conquest of the air\" literally implies rising into the air as in levitation, but it likely has a symbolic meaning of \"a state of consciousness into a vast ocean of space\" or \"voidness\" ideas found respectively in Hinduism and Buddhism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome traditions such as the Kaula tantric sect of Hinduism and Sahajiya tantric sect of Buddhism pursued more esoteric goals such as alchemy (Nagarjuna, Carpita), magic, kalavancana (cheating death) and parakayapravesa(entering another's body). James Mallinson, however, disagrees and suggests that such fringe practices are far removed from the mainstream Yoga's goal as meditation-driven means to liberation in Indian religions.The majority of historic Hatha yoga texts do not give any importance to siddhis. The mainstream practice considered the pursuit of magical powers as a distraction or hindrance to Hatha yoga's ultimate aim of spiritual liberation, self-knowledge or release from rebirth that the Indian traditions call mukti or moksha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goals of Hatha yoga, in its earliest texts, were linked to mumukshu (seeker of liberation, moksha). The later texts added and experimented with the goals of bubhukshu (seeker of enjoyment, bhoga).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDifferences from Patanjali yoga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatha yoga is a branch of yoga. It shares numerous ideas and doctrines with other forms of yoga, such as the more ancient Yoga system taught by Patanjali. The differences are in the addition of some aspects, and different emphasis on other aspects. For example, pranayama is crucial in all yogas, but it is the mainstay of Hatha yoga. Mudras and certain kundalini-related ideas are included in Hatha yoga, but not mentioned in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Patanjali yoga considers asanas important but dwells less on various asanas than the Hatha yoga texts. In contrast, the Hatha yoga texts consider meditation as important but dwell less on meditation methodology than Patanjali yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hatha yoga texts acknowledge and refer to Patanjali yoga, attesting to the latter's antiquity. However, this acknowledgment is essentially only in passing, as they offer no serious commentary or exposition of Patanjali's system. This suggests that Hatha yoga developed as a branch of the more ancient yoga.[84] According to P.V. Kane, Patanjali yoga concentrates more on the yoga of the mind, while Hatha yoga focuses on body and health.[85] Some Hindu texts do not recognize this distinction. For example, the Yogatattva Upanishad teaches a system that includes all aspects of the Yogasutras of Patanjali, and all additional elements of Hatha yoga practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImpact\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The impact of Hatha yoga on physical and mental health has been a topic of systematic studies. Some scholars state that a regular and proper yoga practice yields health benefits. Others state that the results of these studies have been mixed and inconclusive, with cancer studies suggesting none to unclear effectiveness, and others suggesting yoga may reduce risk factors and aid in a patient's psychological healing process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoga's combined focus on mindfulness, breathing, and physical movements bring health benefits with regular participation. Yoga participants report better sleep, increased energy levels and muscle tone, relief from muscle pain and stiffness, improved circulation and overall better general health. The breathing aspect of yoga can benefit heart rate and blood pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2012 \"Yoga in America\" survey, conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Yoga Journal, shows that the number of adult practitioners in the US is 20.4 million, or 8.7 percent. The survey reported that 44 percent of those not practicing yoga said they are interested in trying it.[93]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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